I picture Paola as dark haired, classy, popular, and confident. I only knew one Paola, and everybody called her "PAY-oh-luh", so if you name somebody Paola in America, you'll probably get a lot of that.

Hey y'all, my name is Paola and sometimes I would wish so much that it wasn't my name. Most of my teachers always mispronounce it and it bothers me so much to have to say it for them. But no matter how much I say I hate it, it's the name I was born with and I like it A LOT (and so do the BOYS). Well that's all, hope y'all have good comments on it too cause I think it's not that bad.

Definitely not common. But nevertheless, if you're born in a hispanic family, sometimes you've got strange and uncommon names. Paola is actually my sister's name. And being in America, her teacher and peers are always saying 'Paula' but not 'Pa-Oh-La'.